Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Rape Sentencing

The issue of rape was put squarely back into the arena of public debate last week, following the remarks of Justice Secretary Ken Clarke. I had a lot of sympathy for what Clarke said, although he did make something of a hash of things. Clare McGlynn at Durham wrote in the Guardian exploring the issue of sentencing in rape cases and it's also now been published on the Inherently Human blog. You can read it in full here.